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albertaviews.ca/the-hidden-c... The claims made by Nate Pike have been confirmed by MSM. So why does this podcaster still have a $6M guillotine hanging over his and his family’s heads? #KeepTheCinversationGoing

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Let’s be clear. Healthcare is a human right. It is a foundation, like education that builds and sustains society. It should never be about profit and it never generates revenue. It’s about a patient’s needs & not a shareholder’s return. Anyone who tells you otherwise is stealing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Ok here you go. Here's what I wrote to the CBC Ombudsman. - As an award-winning Canadian journalist, I am writing to express my profound disappointment regarding the upcoming radio program hosted by Ian Hanomansing, which aims to discuss the idea of Canada becoming the USA's 51st state. 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

It's not just coal Every single thing in Alberta in for sale by the UCP Our schools Our healthcare Our parks Our water EVERYTHING #ableg

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

On this day in 1916, Molly Kool was born in Alma, New Brunswick. She became one of the first registered female sea captains in North America and Canada's first female Master Mariner. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/8

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

1/9 A company led by MHCare founder Sam Mraiche made $300,000 in just THREE MONTHS by flipping land to the Alberta government. Here's how the deal unfolded, and why it's raising eyebrows across the province... #ABPoli #CDNPoli #Politics

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

There’s a lot of vitriol for the CBC’s Cross Country Checkup topic (valid), but the number of personal attacks on the hosts is troubling. And you can disagree with a programming choice but I’m seeing people calling for outright defunding of the CBC. WTF.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

“In normal times, a G7 and NATO leader accusing a US president of craving annexation would be a headline-detonating, multi-megaton blast of news, leaving shock waves for months. These aren't normal times.” Ottawa is now taking him seriously. Americans not yet. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Premier talked about paying higher rates so they can pay for the cost of building the CSF Debate exists if taxpayers should pay for any/all of the infrastructure costs BUT, consider this: does it make sense to pay for CSFs if Hospital ORs sitting empty? https://buff.ly/3XcssSG

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

You're in the business of communication so if there's a gap, your audience isn't to blame (as you imply). Problem is there's no way to turn annexation into a polite radio chat. There's no "just asking questions" on a threat of war. You're doing the authoritarian's work for him and we can see it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Send the email. Submit the complaint. Our public broadcaster needs to hear from Canadians. As Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) framed it: are we going to align with Vimy or Vichy?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

"The documents reveal for the first time that the company that facilitated the children’s pain medication deal and a pair of proposed surgical facilities in Red Deer and Lethbridge share a common owner." They also share surgery costs that exceed AHS and another contracted provider. Gift Read ⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

~The St. Albert Gazette has been knocking it out of the park in exposing #UCPCorruption Timeline of how lobbyists with ties to UCP pushed coal policy rewrite The coal industry hired at least 14 UCP insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

It's so much fun gaslighting people with misleading information to rage farm hate against AHS. In case any of you are wondering why I used CIHI's numbers, here's a hint: 👇 #abpoli #ableg #abhealth #UCPCorruption #UCPPublicInquiryNow #KeepTheConversationGoing

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump says Canada has no right to exist. I take the threat seriously. With our sovereignty on the table I support a national discussion on next steps. But CBC thinks it would be fun to have an American DJ co-host whether we should exist as a nation. Fuck that @ianhanomansing.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 435 comments

My fellow Canadians, we need to take back the discourse. Any suggestion of us "becoming" the 51st State must be loudly called out as not "just" trolling, rhetoric, intimidation, or a pathetic attempt at humour, but an assault on who we are and our sovereignty. "Making" us a US State means open war.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Lethbridge was out today at the constituency office of Minister Nathan Neudorf. There were plenty of of pink slips, a couple of songs and some loud voices.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

New wildfire-monitoring satellite system will be 'game changer' in North, officials say

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The minister who called for LaGrange's removal may now be implicated in a separate swindle involving the same players, government documents show. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social broke the latest story in this evolving scandal. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Carney isn't trying to shut any oil or gas anything down. Alberta papers are carrying MASSIVE HEADLINES all over the internet with claims he wants to shut it allll down. Listen, he isn't the moron Alberta would like us to think he is. He won't make us freeze to death and go broke.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

And in Edmonton today! Thanks to all those who came!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There are 3 important petitions for Canadians: 3 of 3

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There are 3 important petitions for Canadians: 2 of 3

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There are 3 important petitions for Canadians: 1 of 3

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There’s a term for this. Collaborator If my memory is correct, one can enlist in the US military as a pathway to citizenship Feel free to head to the border & sign yourself up Just so we know you’ll have the guts to look us in the eye while pulling the trigger, instead of cowardly from behind.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Fabric softener update. I tried 50/50 Epsom salts and baking soda. Put it in the softener tray. It all rinsed through fine. Worked like a dream. No static (even with a fleece nightgown in the wash). Nice and soft. (I did use the wool dryer balls as well). Completely fragrance free. 😁

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Pink slips were delivered to the UCP in Lethbridge!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Albertans are slowly waking up to the depths of the scandal enveloping the UCP government. A lot of folks are wondering how to explain what's going on to people who haven't been tuning in. Here's the what, so what now what, and what's next of the situation. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

It’s called Gleichschaltung. And German history shows us where it can end. Again: we have the knowledge; we have the right words. That the US could still get to this point is such a terrible failure.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Sign the petition. I just did. Petition to the Prime Minister. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's dual citizenship status, and revoke his Canadian passport effective immediately. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Dear German friends — we’re hearing in Canada how the far-right extremist AfD party is polling well in part because they’re “strong on social media”, Elon Musk’s interference, & their attempts to appear mainstream. Please look closely at the chaos Musk & extremists are creating in the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

It is happening, yay!! Minister Anita Anand informed the provinces Friday that Ottawa will remove more than half of federal internal trade barriers in a move to make Canada less reliant on the US, according to a senior federal government source. #Canada #cdnpoli 🍁 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 2 days ago • 159 comments

Let’s keep this @carrietait.bsky.social AHS piece going. Remember when the UofC policy school published this really horrible thought piece by Danielle Smith about health care funding before she was premier? No? Oh you really need to remover this piece of 🐂 💩 www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Scoop: Alberta’s health authority pressed MHCare in December to prove it was working to fulfill a contract to import millions of doses of pain medication from Turkey, accusing the company of doing very little work after being paid tens of millions. With @carrietait.bsky.social #abpoli #ableg

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Catching up on my homework, I finally had the chance to review Mentzelopoulos's statement of claim re the Alberta healthcare scandal. It really is a wide-ranging series of accusations. Here are my takeaways. 🧵https://www.scribd.com/document/827797277/Statement-of-Claim-Mentzelopoulos

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submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Many good points here by @naheednenshi.bsky.social. But a few more points to consider. Premier Smith claimed AHS was wilfully stalling the implementation of chartered surgical facility contracts so it was ok for her chief of staff Marshall Smith to call AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos. 1

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This is exactly my fear. If we allow one government in this country to get away with this shit, other unscrupulous governments will pursue the same nefarious activity with vigour.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Both Smith and LaGrange are absolutely defiant and shameless in their refusal to accept any responsibility and instead repeatedly blame “AHS management.”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

THIS. This whole presser is her saying “we were just trying to optimize privatization. Also, blame AHS and the NDP” #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Why we need a Public Inquiry👇 The Premier quoted a lot of numbers today that were incomplete or out of context Either she doesn’t understand the numbers (team doesn’t either then) or there was intent to mislead the public… Public deserves REAL answers… must call a PI

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

30 minute statement and press conference. And Smith and LaGrange never responded to allegations about political interference into surgical contracts. Just kept saying that AHS is responsible for all contracts and is stonewalling their reforms.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Bell says subsea cable from Cape Breton to Newfoundland was deliberately cut — twice

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls out Premier Smith's gaslighting. #ableg #abpoli

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I watched the UCP press conference several times this afternoon (so you wouldn't have to). Here are my takeaways (but you should watch it for yourself).🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bjZ...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments